It is one both ways

Regardless of that isolated incident

I had a good conversation with a heavily christian woman about evolution. She was very much disbelieving in it basically followign the logic of "I don't see how we came from monkeys". When I explained to her that we really did not, and that it isn't how evolution works and we come from a common ancestor, she actually told me that made more sense and wanted to research it more.

I gained a lot of respect for her over that

She was already pretty damn nice. But open minded as well, even being really religious? I can respect the fuck out of that.

Yeah

In a world where everyone just wants to be correct
Open people willing to have a discussion and more past the point actually learn from you and you them

Are truly respectable people

But it's also a two-way street in that regard. If you aren't open minded but are trying to change other people's minds, that just makes you a hypocrite.

But thats the thing, No one "knows god exist" but they act like they do

What

Ah ok

Well that's just part of their faith

I think there's a lot into it psychologically tbh

Faith is a very intense thing

And a thing of trust and intense belief

It's hard for people to reconcile with the world not having all the answers they want. But this religion that claims to? I can see why it's appealing.

True

Cant expect everyone to be agnostic

It's mostly all about the feelings

And some people try putting logic into faith

We naturally have a fear of things unknown to us

I dont 😄 never do. I just dont expect them to try and convert me when they ask my opinion

But when you start putting logic into religion, it falls off hard

I used to be a bit more like that I guess but I've kind of relaxed I guess I dunno

I take it person by person

If someone is intolerant towards me, I will return the favor.

Y'all motherfuckers ever take a philosophy class?

Knowledge, defined epistemologically is justified true belief.

That's three points it has to satisfy, with religion, most of the time you can only satisfy the "belief" part. So religion only really satisfied 1/3 of the quality of knowledge.

They can try to justify it, but justified thought with religion is really easy to pick apart.

Well if you're expecting them to try and concert you thats kind of assuming their intent
They may actually be curious, or maybe they want to teach you some of what they know

Teaching someone your own way doesnt mean they gotta follow it

Only that they can understand it better maybe

Some people also just don't know anything else

And that is especially true for say, the USA

Where over what

70% are christian?

Nah, it's the same in South Asia

Usually, the average religious perso. Doesn't know any better or doesn not care to

There's a lot of ignorance and pride

The only time they go ahead to disporve a religion is to better their own religion

Exactly

There are some who know nothing else
And then those who go through all 10 miles of being raised a ceritan way being heavily non believing at some points, and turning back around to a system of belief

Individuals with a very strong sense of themselves and a very strong caring nature often times